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Definition of Flocculent
1. Adjective. Having a fluffy character or appearance.
Definition of Flocculent
1. a. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
2. a. Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates.
Definition of Flocculent
1. Adjective. Flocculated, resembling bits of wool, woolly. ¹
2. Adjective. Covered in a woolly substance; downy. ¹
3. Adjective. Flaky. ¹
4. Noun. (galaxy) diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flocculent
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Flocculent
1.
1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Flocculent
Literary usage of Flocculent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"The oil of turpentine was in a flocculent state at 56°, and solid at 63° and at
65°.—Kane's Second Expedition. INFLUENCE OF ARCTIC TEMPERATURES UPON ICE. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"... white flocculent thymo'ilol, which may also be obtained, in a similar manner,
... flocculent ..."
3. The Microscope, and Its Application to Clinical Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1854)
"Light and flocculent deposits, usually transparent, and occupying considerable
volume.—Mucus, with epithelium of different characters, spermatozoa, ..."
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